secondary
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One option is the so-called secondary market, where employees and early investors who already own shares in SpaceX can sell them to others privately, at whatever price the two sides agree on.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The number of primary pupils in England has fallen by 150,000 since 2019, a decline soon expected to be seen in secondary schools too.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
"That secondary dip tells us how bright, and therefore how hot, the planet is," said Wilson.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
When a rare bottle has a serial number to trace its origin, a buyer on the secondary market likely won’t see it until the purchase is complete.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Even the 2,500-year-old Greek idea of an axiomatic geometry—a few self-evident axioms being assumed, and from them the theorems being derived by logic alone—is not being effectively taught in secondary school.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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